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Turkey’s lose-lose referendum
No matter the outcome of Turkeyâs referendum on constitutional reform Sunday, there is no good option left for the countryâs people. A victory for the Yes vote would institutionalize a de facto...
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A tale of two Slavic strongmen
KIEV, Ukarine â On the surface, Russiaâs President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko have every reason to be bosom buddies. Both are strongmen of the Russian-speaking...
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French elections’ real risk: More of the same
PARIS â While much of Europe frets that an extremist victory in France’s presidential election could upend the EU, the country’s political and business elite is worried about something completely...
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Erdoğan’s power grab follows authoritarian script
NEW YORK â Any media outlet telling you that Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan legitimately won the referendum vote is complicit in a historic fraud. The free world has refused to get...
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French Muslims brace for Le Pen presidency
LE BOURGET, France â âInshallah, it wonât be Marine Le Pen,â said Nassim with an anxious smile. âBut if it is, weâll have to accept our fate.â Handing out fliers at last weekendâs...
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Back to the future: The May-Corbyn debate
The year is 1964 â and 1974. In two provincial high schools, 100 miles and a decade apart in the heart of middle England, two gawky teenagers are standing for election. Like thousands of aspiring...
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Marine Le Pen has already won
OXFORD, England â If the French commentariat is to be believed, Marine Le Pen has already lost. The leader of the far-right National Front party might be one the front-runners in this weekâs...
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How Russia hacked the French election
Since the U.S. intelligence community concluded that Moscow waged an influence campaign targeting the 2016 U.S. elections, experts have asked: Will it do the same in the French and German elections?...
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Trump’s fake war on the fake news
Seven days before Donald Trump took office, the inauguration festivities got off to a low-key start inside a modest conference room at the Capitol Hill offices of the American Trucking Association....
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Springtime for Russia’s dissident press
RIGA, Latvia â The Meduza Project, a Russian expatriate news site based in Latvia, is supposedly âan enemy of the Kremlin,â but its relaxed offices in downtown Riga look like those of any other...
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France’s next big challenge: defense policy
PARIS â French voters face a stark choice on May 7 between retreating into isolationism or taking the lead in shaping a European defense policy to respond to Islamic terrorism, an unstable...
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Emmanuel Macron: Renzi 2.0
Heâs an insider and an outsider. As a politician, he was incubated by the left but built his stratospheric rise on a challenge to its grandees. Heâs young, charming and a fan of the EU â the...
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Why Europe has to stand up to Viktor Orbán
The European Union has styled itself as a union of values and prides itself on a commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights that is safeguarded in its treaties, law and policy. But what happens...
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Russian paper feels backlash over Chechnya gay torture story
MOSCOW â The journalists at Novaya Gazeta are no strangers to death threats. And so when an envelope filled with a mysterious white powder arrived at their office in central Moscow, the staff at...
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What the press still doesn’t get about Trump
There was lots of hand-wringing after the election about how the media had messed up. Were we too quick to believe the polls? Did we have any idea what real Americans actually thought? Did we give...
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Will Trump release the missing JFK files?
The nationâs conspiracy-theorist-in-chief is facing a momentous decision. Will President Donald Trump allow the public to see a trove of thousands of long-secret government files about the event...
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Susan Glasser: âDonald Trump is probably one of the least popular American presidents on this side of the Atlantic for a very long time.â That was Carl Bildt, our guest on The Global Politico this...
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‘They thought the man had gone bananas’
BERLIN â Early one February weekend, President Trump let loose a cryptic complaint, followed by a barrage of Fox News-inspired tweets, about Sweden of all places. He made the Nordic country, home of...
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13 times Eurovision got super political
It’s been a tense run-up to this yearâs Eurovision Song Contest, everyoneâs favorite night of glitz, glamour and novelty trampolines. Russia’s proposed act, Julia Samoylova, fell foul of a...
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May and Juncker in couples therapy
An unnamed but licensed professional marriage counselor in Brussels forwarded to POLITICO a recording of âSession 14, May 2, 2017â with clients âT May â JC Juncker.” The following is an...
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